Plastic ring over tweeter opinion

No need to cut the tweeter bridge. You can achieve everything you want by duct taping a "Clever Little Clock" directly above each tweeter.

Duct tape is the answer to just about everything.

Duct tape didn't help my circumcision (or my tweeter). Neither did a "Clever Little Clock" - with or without duct tape. I guess that a little time can't heal everything and maybe these cure-alls can't cure all? Darn...

Read about another great use for duct tape in the "Why so many" thread next door...

"Duct tape is the answer to just about everything."

That's certainly Red Green's philosophy...(those not in the habit of watching reruns of Canadian comedy on PBS, don't ask)

Agree that altering whatever "phase" or "diffusor" plate/plug/ring/lens accompanies a tweeter -- anything more than just a guard-wire -- will greatly and unpredictably alter its response and throw out of whack all the engineering that the designer put into the speaker. So consider this: the Stereophile reviewer Wes Phillips, whose writing I generally enjoy and don't usually find to be partially insane or blissfully ignorant, stated in print that he actually heeded Pierre Sprey's personal urging and clipped them off the pair of Thiel 1.6's he seemed to have kept in-house for an extended stay. Aside from the questions this raises about Phillips' sonic and reviewing accumen and judgement, what must Jim Thiel have thought A) about anyone doing this to his speakers, much less B) about a reviewer doing this to gear I assume was on manufacturer loan?